Now a Netflix film starring Justin Hartley! In this holiday-themed novel from the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk a man receives the best
Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to rewrite the past. Bestselling romance author
Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years?not since his mentally ill mother
kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen. When a lawyer calls days before
Christmas to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him
Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and reconcile with the past and the pain
and abuse he experienced as a child. Also maybe cleaning out her house will be slightly less
depressing than spending the holidays alone watching re-runs of Christmas classics. But as it
turns out the house holds more than just difficult memories Jacob's mother had become a
hoarder and he must excavate through two decades worth of clutter. As Jacob digs through the
detritus like an archaeologist he uncovers many puzzling items including a diary left by
someone named Noel a young woman he has no recollection of who stayed with Jacob's family
during her pregnancy. That's not the only echo from the past. Jacob has an unexpected visitor
Rachel a woman looking for the mother who put her up for adoption thirty years before. United
by their quest to make sense of the past and rewrite their futures Jacob and Rachel begin a
search for Noel. Along the way they find more than they possibly imagined including grace
forgiveness and a chance at love.
